Litestep problem....
Tuesday, April 22, 2003 by MotoHota | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
After applying a certain Litestep theme, all my windows bars disapeared. Clicking the mouse does nothing, and the keyboard does nothing (Except for the CTRL-ALT-DELETE function).
I do not have the windows disc (My windows version is 98 SE), so I cannot reinstall windows... or at least I don't know how to without the disc. I don't want my computer to be gone forever (Obviously), so.......any help? This is terrible. I'm on a friend's computer right now.
I do not have the windows disc (My windows version is 98 SE), so I cannot reinstall windows... or at least I don't know how to without the disc. I don't want my computer to be gone forever (Obviously), so.......any help? This is terrible. I'm on a friend's computer right now.
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Peff
Reply #42 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:03 AM
Reply #42 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:03 AM
Amen bakerstreet. I've got a server running win2000 RC1 that I haven't had to reboot in over 4 months.
BoXXi
Reply #43 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:03 AM
Reply #43 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:03 AM
O.K., I have seen enough. jj79_1999, You have no idea what you are talking about!
I started using Litestep when I first got into computers about 4 or 5 years ago. I knew very little about shells, explorer.exe etc. I read everything about it before I installed it and never had a problem! My system was always really stable with LS running, and it was so simple to get back into explorer if I needed to. (although I never booted into Explorer for over 2 years at one time)
I still have Litestep on my system, I have it on it's own user account in XP so that I can boot into it at startup if I wish when I want to try some of the cool themes that come out.
I only stopped theming for Litestep when I got into DesktopX, but I have lost none of my respect for a fine piece of software.
As Jafo points out, it's usually the failing of the user rather than the software that causes most problems.
Now go and spout your crap elsewhere and don't come back until you have learned how to keep quiet about things you have no knowledge of.
I started using Litestep when I first got into computers about 4 or 5 years ago. I knew very little about shells, explorer.exe etc. I read everything about it before I installed it and never had a problem! My system was always really stable with LS running, and it was so simple to get back into explorer if I needed to. (although I never booted into Explorer for over 2 years at one time)
I still have Litestep on my system, I have it on it's own user account in XP so that I can boot into it at startup if I wish when I want to try some of the cool themes that come out.
I only stopped theming for Litestep when I got into DesktopX, but I have lost none of my respect for a fine piece of software.
As Jafo points out, it's usually the failing of the user rather than the software that causes most problems.
Now go and spout your crap elsewhere and don't come back until you have learned how to keep quiet about things you have no knowledge of.
Tech Cat
Reply #44 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 6:04 AM
Reply #44 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 6:04 AM
I'm sorry I turned this thread into a flame war. For now on I will shut-up about things I have very little or no knowledge of. I am sorry.
SuperheroCanadian
Reply #45 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 6:54 AM
Reply #45 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 6:54 AM
i have noticed that LS threads have been attracting alot of my OS is greater than thou feeling. Im with jafo, i have been running LS for about a year anda half, and to tell u the truth it has never crashed or messed with my system, ive had themes that have caused some trouble but thats to be expected read up on it or live and learn, if something doesnt work for u try it at a different angle, instead of going on flaming it just because it doesnt work for u.
Go find a good mac site if u really want to get a flame war started, we are just defending ourselves, unlike some people
Go find a good mac site if u really want to get a flame war started, we are just defending ourselves, unlike some people
MotoHota
Reply #46 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 8:27 PM
Reply #46 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 8:27 PM
Hmm... Well, I certainly didn't mean to cause this unnecessary debate. In my case, I've never liked the cold appearance of Windows on my desktop (I prefer the clean new mac desktop appearance). So when I found the shell section of Wincustomize, I was ecstatic. I looked for a clean, white and glassy appearance for a windows shell, and found one. But when I applied the theme, the problem that created this topic occurred.
Well anyway, I will use the DOS process to try and fix my computer when I get home tomorrow. So thank you all that contributed to assisting me in this situation. It's really too bad though that I can't seem to have my clean desktop appearance. bah
Well anyway, I will use the DOS process to try and fix my computer when I get home tomorrow. So thank you all that contributed to assisting me in this situation. It's really too bad though that I can't seem to have my clean desktop appearance. bah
Jafo
Reply #47 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 8:54 PM
Reply #47 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 8:54 PM
MotoHota....you CAN have your 'clean appearance'...the benefit of alternate shells is that once 'mastered' you can do virtually anything you can dream of, or wish for...
MotoHota
Reply #48 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:15 PM
Reply #48 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:15 PM
I'm sure my lack of installation knowledge is a good reason for all this trouble. I'm the sort of person that needs every single aspect of something clearly explained before I can feel fully confident in pursuing it. I don't understand all the file transformations or whatever you call it that I have to do with loading a new theme. Perhaps I missed something important... I wish this was easier, and almost no one out there wants to explain it all to you clearly and step by step. 
bakerstreet
Reply #49 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:30 PM
Reply #49 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:30 PM
What you need is a shell switcher. You point your 'shell=' line at it, and when your alternative shell's theme farts out you can just reboot and select the other until you have your theme situated. I think you will see that fixing the .ini in DOS is no big deal either, you just didn't know to do it.
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Reply #41 Wednesday, April 23, 2003 1:58 AM
No one here has even attempted to prove that it is spyware, so I am not gonna address arguments that have yet to be made.
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What exactly do you accomplish on your Linux box, other than keeping it around for the obvious name-dropping benefits?
None of the software I work with will run on Linux, nor are any of the linux 'equivalents' worth migrating to. I only reboot my win2000 box about once a week, sometimes less. I had a win98SE box that ran once for 26 days without rebooting.
Granted, using Linux would make me really l33t, but unfortunatly a lot of us need to get stuff done from time to time. You don't get that done by running around a tempermental community trying to find 'alternatives' that are almost as good as windows apps. I have been down that road 3 times, and each time was a continual effort to make things work that *HAD* worked, just before I installed Linux...